hunter-gatherer

American  

[huhn-ter-gath-er-er] / ˈhʌn tərˈgæð ər ər /

noun

Anthropology.

1. a member of a group of people who subsist by hunting, fishing, or foraging in the wild.

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hunter-gatherer British  

adjective

1. (of a society, lifestyle, etc) surviving by hunting animals and gathering plants for subsistence

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noun

1. a member of such a society

Example Sentences

Twice in the last 50 years, crises in the Mideast, one of them centered in Iran, have turned Americans into frantic hunter-gatherers for another necessity: fuel for their gas tanks.

From Los Angeles Times

About 5,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers lived there, surviving mainly on seal hunting and fishing.

From Science Daily

Both Neanderthals and later Mesolithic hunter-gatherers significantly altered vegetation patterns across Europe, long before agriculture began.

From Science Daily

In addition, many present-day hunter-gatherer societies still include scavenging as part of their subsistence practices, demonstrating that it remains a practical and effective strategy.

From Science Daily

According to Pailler, there could have been a transmission of know-how on extracting, cutting and transporting the stones between older Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and incoming Neolithic agriculturists.

From BBC